Delta 5000 mile promotion ended??? [Nope, Still alive]

Jerseyguy · Oct 12, 09, 10:44 pm

My brother is going to Charlotte on business and will be back and forth 4 times renting a car for 4-5 days. Avis had a promotion where if you rented a car for 4 days or more you'd get 5000 Delta Skymiles. It said it was good until December 31 however its been replaced with a 1500 mile promo. He booked his first reservation and used the code. He still has the promo code can he use it and get his 5000 miles? Or its gone with no notice and thats that.

heffa · Oct 13, 09, 12:53 am

Interesting... The old link now shows the error: We're Sorry... The page you have requested is no longer available. Please use our map below to help navigate your way through our site.

ramalama8 · Oct 13, 09, 9:56 am

I just looked on Delta's site ... the promo is no longer there ... sad. I've used this promo for the past 6 months and have gotten nearly 100,000 miles out of it. It was great while it lasted. Although, why was it ended early? Don't you think they have an obligation to honor it through Dec 31?

heffa · Oct 13, 09, 1:13 pm

Promo is gone. Here's the original promo text with t&c:

Rental must begin by December 31, 2009!!!

I made a four day reservation yesterday with MUAA133 and the last page of the reservation stated that the coupon code was valid/accepted.

Mrp Alert · Oct 14, 09, 6:06 pm

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Same drama happened last year. I ended up getting all my miles credited but it was a big pain. Check out last years 5k promo thread in the dl forum to see all the fun other fters went through.

sdsearch · Oct 15, 09, 7:50 am

I noticed not only the same thing, but also that a lot of other Avis promos with other airlines that were originally said through 31 Dec 09 had also been withdrawn and replaced with promos that give much fewer miles and/or are more expensive (requiring GPS rental). I was looking at an archived message filled with car bonuses from this year, from elsewhere on FT, and was trying to see if another airline I collect with had something better than the remaining 1500 DL bonus, and they would have had, had they all not been simlarly withdrawn or changed to require GPS!

By coincidence (with the details of the OP), I realized this a few days ago as I was booking a 6-day reservation for a rental at Charlotte! I was annoyed, but I wanted something that would post, not something dubious that I'd have to fight (and maybe find out in the end I'd get nothing at all), and so I went with the official 1500 miles DL bonus.

(I didn't see this thread until just now, half a day into said rental.)

Firewind · Oct 16, 09, 4:23 am

This is definitely deja vu all over again. But I remember it being the Budget/DL one. Actually, this happened with a couple of DL rental car "year end" partner promotions. We keep swearing that we won't do it again. Then we do. The lesson, if we are going to keep doing it, and they are going to keep doing it, is to print the promo/portal page. It was my sole salvation in two cases, last year.

heffa, what you've contributed here is huge. Thank you very much.

I really thought DL would have learned their lesson, last year. That was awful. This is just reprehensible. I'm ready to say that the VP in charge of this is a slimeball.

FullTimeFlyer · Oct 16, 09, 4:34 am

Not only is there this problem with the Delta/Avis 5K bonus, but Avis' corporate partner Budget also had a Delta promo (maybe 3K? but for shorter stays) and that has disappeared too. I don't see anything more than the 50 points/day!

This is distressing...I have several 3-4 day rentals coming up on Avis - in fact, I'm in the middle of a 3-day rental now. I have no idea what I'll get for this rental since I have the old 3-day (MUAA132) code on it, and no idea what to do for the coming weeks.

FTF

Evan! · Oct 16, 09, 11:23 am

This is popping up on threads right and left it seems.

I called Avis a couple of days ago when the URL stopped working and the CSR told me that MUAA133 and 132 are good through Dec 31.

Also, the Budget 3K for 1-day URL is still working as of today:

https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/partners/partners/deltamedallion.html

Firewind · Oct 16, 09, 11:46 am

Well, OK, Evan! You're right. I just booked an Avis car with the DL K8176000 and MUAA133. (Not through the portal, but starting with my Avis First account.) It went through. No discount, but I'll cross my fingers that the SkyMiles post *spontaneously*.

Evan! · Oct 16, 09, 11:49 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firewind

Well, OK, Evan! You're right. I just booked an Avis car with the DL 8176000 and MUAA133. It went through. No discount, but I'll cross my fingers that the SkyMiles post *spontaneously*.

I return one tonight. I will report back what the receipt says. Last week there was no one in the garage. So I got a paper printout from the counter but that doesn't show the number of miles earned the way the hand-held processsing machines do.

Luck to us all!

ftwmcm · Oct 16, 09, 1:55 pm

i'm also interested in this, I have renting a car every week from Avis. And have been using muaa133 code. But no miles have posted since 9/20. So I will check with Avis and report back.

Evan! · Oct 16, 09, 2:22 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by ftwmcm

i'm also interested in this, I have renting a car every week from Avis. And have been using muaa133 code. But no miles have posted since 9/20. So I will check with Avis and report back.

FTR, my last Avis posting of 5500 (5000 & 500) was on Oct 4.

FullTimeFlyer · Oct 16, 09, 2:57 pm

I'm concerned about this too. I just turned in a 3-day rental and saw the 2650 miles on the slip, but seeing the above I checked my account and saw my last posting was 9-21 - nothing from last week. Still, the 1-week post is very hit-or-miss; could very well post later. Usually whatever I see on the slip has shown up sooner or later.

Still, this has me anxious about what to do about a rental starting Sunday night - 5 days so unsure whether to leave it on the existing coupon trying for the big 5K bonus again or settle for the inferior but seemingly sure 1.5K.

I saw in another thread on the Budget site that an Avis rep said this would still work; I'm pretty sure that was from Evan!

CD

Evan! · Oct 16, 09, 3:13 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by FullTimeFlyer

I saw in another thread on the Budget site that an Avis rep said this would still work; I'm pretty sure that was from Evan!

CD

It was Evan!... uh... me.

Yes an Avis rep looked up the code and said it was good through Dec 31. This was about about a week ago.